§ 6.03. Preparation of budgets.

It shall be the duty of the head of each department, the judges of all courts, each board or commission, including the school board, and each other office or agency supported in whole or in part by the city, including the Sheriff, the Attorney for the Commonwealth, and clerks of courts to file with the City Manager or with another employee of the city designated by him, at such time as the City Manager may prescribe, estimates of revenue and expenditure for that department, court, board, commission, office or agency for the ensuing fiscal year. Such estimates shall be submitted on the forms furnished by the City Manager or his designee and it shall be the duty of the head of each such department, judge, board, commission, office or agency to supply all the information which the City Manager may require to be submitted thereon. The employee designated by the City Manager shall assemble and compile these estimates and supply such additional information relating to the financial transactions of the city as may be necessary or valuable to the City Manager in the preparation of the budgets. The City Manager shall hold such hearings as he may deem advisable, and with the assistance of city staff shall review the estimates and other data pertinent to the preparation of the budgets and make such revisions in such estimates as he may deem proper, subject to the laws of the Commonwealth relating to obligatory expenditures for any purpose, except that in the case of the school board he may recommend a revision only in its total estimated expenditure. (Acts 1973, ch. 258, § 1; Acts 1981, ch. 512, § 1; H.B. 1682ER, § 1, 7-1-2015)